Its a good day to be NBC. Friday's Vancouver Olympic Opening Ceremony averaged a total of 32.6 million viewers and earned a national ratings share of 17.3/30 an increase of 35 percent over Torino in 2006. That should be pretty impressive for a network that estimated they would be losing 250 million because of the Olympics.

And because of those impressive numbers this years Olympics ceremony was the most-watched opening ceremony for a non U.S. Winter Olympics ever. The 32.6 million viewers that watched on NBC helped the network reach 47 percent higher than Torino (who got 22.2 million viewers) and had an overall of 67.5 million viewers. This years opening ceremony also broke another record for the most-watched opening ceremony in 16 years just below the 33.8 million for the tabloid-fueled Lillehammer Games in 1994.

So I'd say that's a pretty good start to the Winter Olympics, did you watch?